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    Peter Rodrigues
    BPL Member

    @prodrigues

    Locale: New York

    Or Tony Dong?

    High School English teacher (sorry to break up the run of accountants and enginerds.)

    #1793187
    Tyler Barcelli
    Member

    @youngster

    Locale: Southeast

    Full time student in biology and soccer coach to pay the rent

    #1793188
    Tony Wong
    BPL Member

    @valshar

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    David & Peter,

    Love the suggestions, but I am thinking of going retro-classic for my stage name.

    Long Duck Dong….do you remember which movie that was from?

    -Tony

    #1793191
    Ike Jutkowitz
    BPL Member

    @ike

    Locale: Central Michigan

    Sixteen candles! What do I win?

    #1793194
    Brad Fisher
    Spectator

    @wufpackfn

    Locale: NC/TN/VA Mountains

    Nice recall Ike !!!.

    Brad

    #1793195
    USA Duane Hall
    BPL Member

    @hikerduane

    Locale: Extreme northern Sierra Nevada

    Financial Associate, but former Retail Store Manager.
    Duane

    #1793197
    Jay Wilkerson
    BPL Member

    @creachen

    Locale: East Bay

    Bay Area Sales Rep for Motorola Two-Way Radios, "Walkie Talkies", Wireless Voice & Data

    #1793198
    Mike M
    BPL Member

    @mtwarden

    Locale: Montana

    it's right under my name :)

    #1793199
    Jesse Glover
    Member

    @hellbillylarry

    Locale: southern appalachians

    Automotive technician/Classic car mechanic.

    #1793202
    Lonney Phillips
    Member

    @groundpounder

    Locale: Midwest

    If you can call it a profession…Grounds department for a local school district. I work outdoors so I may as well play there too :D

    #1793203
    Heath Pitts
    BPL Member

    @heathpitts

    Locale: Nashville

    I'm an IT security consultant and I have to travel around the east coast to design and implement security strategies and architecture.

    #1793204
    Joe Clement
    BPL Member

    @skinewmexico

    Locale: Southwest

    I hate to even admit I'm an engineer now.

    #1793205
    Chad Eagle
    Member

    @eaglesd

    Locale: SoCal

    Lineman for a So-Cal utility, currently providing in house third party consulting for a large transmission project.

    #1793206
    Dale Wambaugh
    BPL Member

    @dwambaugh

    Locale: Pacific Northwest

    Hmmm, a group of people who will weigh everything in their pack to the smallest part of a gram, put it all in a spreadsheet, and seriously use things like titanium potty trowels?

    Yes, it is another episode of Nerds on Parade!

    #1793210
    David Ure
    Member

    @familyguy

    What do you win?

    A date with Molly Ringwald. A little older now but the hair is still red.

    #1793213
    Tohru Ohnuki
    Member

    @erdferkel

    Locale: S. California

    Aerospace scientist, so yeah guilty as charged…

    #1793215
    a b
    Member

    @ice-axe

    Before I discovered long distance hiking I was a responsible, upstanding, new construction plumber.
    I have also been a forklift mechanic, commercial photo lab printer, garbage truck driver, centerless grinder operator, delivery driver, automotive drive shaft fabricator/ welder, and janitor.
    I once worked at Mc Donalds just to save money up to move away with a girl.
    I do well with any job, and particularly well in mechanical jobs.
    The main issue i have is that I master the job and just get bored to tears.
    About 2 years is as long as i can stand the pretense of secondary aims.
    Although I did the plumbing thing for over 10 years until the big crash.
    I am blue collar working trash.
    Currently i am cleaning carpets for a major company and dreaming of the day i can save up enough to hike a long trail once again.
    The PCT cost me 5 grand, the CDT about the same, the AT a little less. Basically my goal in life at this moment is to scrape another 5 grand together and take another long walk.
    None of this is real. The job, the car, the bills.
    Only what happens while walking is real.

    #1793224
    daniel B
    Spectator

    @dbogey

    Locale: East Coast

    Did spend 7 yrs in the army as an imagery analyst spying on other countries, shhhhhhh! After that got into the IT field and I'm now a SQL server and oracle database administrator for a large university here in pittsburgh pa. I'm jealous of anyone who works outdoors for a living

    #1793228
    John Donewar
    BPL Member

    @newton

    Locale: Southeastern Texas

    I / E

    a.k.a. Instrument Technician / Electrician in a manufacturing plant.

    It pays the bills so I can play in the hills. ;-)

    Party On,

    Newton

    #1793233
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    Used to be engineer

    Now, just a bum : )

    #1793251
    Chris Hanson
    Member

    @chrishanson

    Locale: Eastern Wyoming

    Museum Curator and Metal Artist

    #1793254
    Evan Parker
    BPL Member

    @ecp12

    Locale: Upstate NY

    I think I'm breaking a major trend here, but I'm a full time student double majoring in Classical Studies and Molecular Biology with the hopes of going to medical school. I'm also currently for in a lab focusing on diabetes and obesity research.

    #1793257
    Hamish Reid
    BPL Member

    @mrexplorerdouglas

    Locale: Arthur's Pass National Park

    I spent most of the last decade carrying heavy packs for a living. Had not thought about the irony so much until this thread appeared.

    As of the last year though, even further from being a accountant or engineer, I'm a full time dad with two very small hiking partners.

    The expedition cook is in there, honest...

    The expedition Cook is in there, honest…

    #1793258
    HkNewman
    BPL Member

    @hknewman

    Locale: The West is (still) the Best

    Actually hired gun, when I think about semi-seriously..

    #1793262
    Jeff M.
    BPL Member

    @catalyst

    Attorney. Father's a software engineer though, so its in the family.

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